Please mind that when doing upgrades, a regular file would probably not get updated, while using symlink will assure you that the newest timezone file will always be used.
Also, if you need /usr to be available when the zoneinfo access is crucial, and it is not already mounted, you have bigger problems.

 - Noam

On 10/9/06, Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 09/10/06, Ehud Karni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 21:06:10 Oron Peled wrote:
>
> Specific to RedHat/CentOS/Fedora, they copy the local timezone
> file (/usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Jerusalem) into /etc/localtime

Just a very minor correction, the zoneinfo file is not copied,
it is symlinked, to /etc/localtime.

It probably depends on the distro, on Debian Etch it's a regular file, not a symlink.
I guess that the logic is that /usr might not be still available when the zoneinfo
is already required (e.g. when /usr is NFS-mounted).

--Amos

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